Schizophrenia 

Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia Symptom, Treatment and cause of Schizophrenia Types

Schizophrenia is the most common of the major mental disorder, whose clinically symptology, etiology, and prognosis is fraught and confused. It is characterized by withdrawal into a private world by belief and percepts, which are not shared by others. This disorder affects 1 % of the population and has been considered as everything from a single disease to a way of life. Its prognosis has been described as hopeless and as better than that of most neuroses.

There are at least six problems that persist while evaluating of any hypothesis about schizophrenia:

1. It may not be a single entity, but rather a number of different conditions.
2. It is characterized by variability. In whatever is studied, the pluses and minuses may cancel each other out, leaving average characteristic of schizophrenics as a group, but to individuals.
3. There may be significant differences between acute and chronic forms of the disorder.
4. It is uncertain whether the signs and symptoms used for diagnosis and classification are indicative of etiology or are secondary to other process.
5. It is uncertain whether the disorder is - an end state, the process of reaching that end state or both.

Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

THE DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDER of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM, 1968) defines schizophrenia as a severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth, characteristically marked by a retreat from reality, delusion, hallucination, emotional disharmony and regressive behavior.

The world health organization has made a major effort to standardize the diagnosis of schizophrenia. The core symptoms of schizophrenia as revealed by these studies are:

• Auditory hallucination (74%)
• Flatness of affect (66%)
• Voice speaking to the patient (65%)
• Thought alienation (62%)
• Thought spoken aloud (50%)
• Delusions of control (48%)

Sub Types - Behavior patterns of Schizophrenia:

It is usually divided into a number of sub-types depending upon predominant secondary signs in addition to that necessary diagnosis of the disorder. Because patients tend to have their differentiating features, these sub-types are probably best seen as behavior patterns.

1. Catatonic Schizophrenia
2. Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
3. Paranoid Schizophrenia

Disorganized schizophrenia, John Nash Schizophrenia, Etiology of schizophrenia, Paranoia

Cure of Schizophrenia

1. Group and Occupational Psychotherapies - These methods have succeeded in bringing relief to many patients suffering from the disease.
2. Re-learning: It has always proved valuable for the schizophrenic patients.
3. Electric Shock therapy- In recent times this method has been employed to cure patients of their schizophrenic tendencies, but yet there is no saying what permanent affect it can achieve.
4. Medicine: The cure of this disease also involves use of insulin injection and metharanol.

Fundamentally what is essential for curing the schizophrenic is that basic adjustment between individual and the environment should be achieved, and for this different method can be employed, the choice being suggested by the circumstances itself.

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Hi: I speak my thoughts aloud...it's embarrassing and scary.
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I've experienced trauma from conception to late adulthood...had four pregnancies within a five year period and don't drink or take drugs...nor have I ever done so.
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